X-Wing Animation Test | Blender Eevee Render

The X-Wing model featured in this video is available to Model Access patrons on my Patreon! Check it out if you're interested in supporting the channel: / benjewer
Just a short video showing off my new Resistance X-Wing model, rendered in Eevee. Also testing out something new: Temporal Supersampling. I rendered 16x the number of frames necessary and then blended them together to create motion blur (something that Eevee currently can't handle). It's a clunky solution, but it works with the speeds that Eevee can render at. If anyone has any ideas on how I can set a shutter speed using this approach (rather than blending together every subframe) please let me know!
Modelled in Blender 2.82, textured in Substance Painter, rendered in Eevee.
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[@RocketLabFX]

Animation is great, love how the wings have that subtle "lock" stutter when they go into attack mode.

[@BenJewer]

Glad you picked up on that :)

[@Workbenchtv]

I came to the comments looking for this.

[@Tutorial7a]

Incredible-looks nearly good enough to be used in something like the Mandalorian!

[@BenJewer]

Thanks very much!

[@brunocastro4558]

I agree.

[@frogbonegames5175]

Looks amazing, the paint is cool too, and it is overall a great short animation.

[@VDubbz675]

Impressive....Most Impressive!

[@iVoztutorial]

Love that surface imperfections! Good work as always

[@PraxisVisuals]

killin it, as always

[@BenJewer]

Cheers man!

[@Artman009]

Looks great, as always!

[@Alvision100]

Love it!

[@bedirhan1833]

Nice work !

[@danbreland3444]

Can you make a tutorial on how you rigged the x-wing. I love the little bounce in the s foils when the wings lock. Very impressive.

[@ikestrom]

Really nice. I especially like the shadows and contact shadows. I can never get them to look that good in Eevee. You can also try a dual-scene setup, one with Eevee and one with Cycles (with a single sample), and then use the compositor with a vector blur node to simulate motion blur. Not perfect but works.

[@BenJewer]

I’ve found an addon which seems to do what I want, which is sampled motion blur but with control over the shutter speed. Vector blur usually produces results I’m not too happy with and gets messy in complex scenes.

[@ikestrom]

@@BenJewer Can you share some info on that add-on?

[@BenJewer]

blenderartists.org/t/updated-july-19-2019-eevee-real-object-based-motion-blur-v0-4-3/1167129 haven’t test yet, but it seems to do exactly what I’m looking for. Only limitation is that it can only export to .exr right now which isn’t a major problem really.

[@Kamcio44]

The model and render are amazing. Wings opening animation looks great too. The only thing is it looks like it's floating up and down for no reason. In movies 90% of the time they fly straight especially if there is nothing attacking them. Maybe instead of moving the x-wing u should move the camera so that the stars would move with it and it would look way better in my opinion ;)

[@BenJewer]

You're right, there probably is a bit too much movement on the Z axis looking at it now. Getting the right sort of weight to the movement is definitely the most challenging part!

[@gower1973]

@@BenJewer Read up on newtons laws of motion, your in a vacuum its only going to go in one direction unless acted on by another force not bounce around like that, the whole idea of an xwing in space is kind of dumb it wouldn`t even fly in real life but yeh its fantasy, it has no maneuvering thrusters and the wings are useless again its a vacuum but its a mute point.

[@BenJewer]

@@gower1973 I'm fully aware of Newton's laws of motion thanks - this is Star Wars physics not real space physics. They fly as if they're in a medium like an atmospheric fighter, and it's capturing that look which is difficult. If Star Wars obeyed true physics then animating them would be extremely easy.

[@brunocastro4558]

Excellent, Ben Jewer . Thats a lawfull feature film scene. One question : do you think its possible to texture in that quality amount using Blender only ?

[@BenJewer]

Many thanks! You definitely could do this in Blender, I just use Substance because the workflow is faster for me and is closer to more traditional digital painting (you have layers, blend modes etc). You can get some really good results just with procedural materials in Blender if you put the time in.

[@brunocastro4558]

@@BenJewer You answered me !! Oh my...thanks a lot !! I think that's really a common Blender users question, after SubsP arryved. I'll keep trying, the most with procedurals. Thank you. Waiting for the tutorials.

[@CarlosGamesCG5173]

For a moment i though that this was the T-65, but it's the T-70 (because of the livery)

[@raymondstpaul4913]

Blender looks so cool I am trying to now learn it but I get frustrated easily did it take you long to learn? Any advice?

[@michaelcooney9368]

How is shutter angle used for multisample motion blur? I can make blur in eevee by stretching timeline say 20times. But you can't use twenty samples a frame because film cameras use a half frame or 180 degree shutter. I was thinking of this to motion blur smoke/flames. But for decent blur that's 10 out of 20 sub frames, and you have to use all subframes for the simulation. That can multiply disk usage for storing vdb files tremendously.

[@BenJewer]

I had the same concern, but luckily someone has created an addon specifically for Eevee sampled motion blur: blenderartists.org/t/updated-july-19-2019-eevee-real-object-based-motion-blur-v0-4-3/1167129 This doesn't help with the smoke/fire subframes, but depending on your camera movement it might not be too noticeable if you have fewer subframes than necessary. If you have some camera motion blur going on then it's quite hard to tell.

[@cjkalandek996]

1. Awesome! 2. Is this model gonna be on your TurboSquid account? 3. When I saw the thumbnail, my first immediate thought was gonna be your take on that shot from _Rogue One_ where we see 3 or 4 X-Wings take a starboard dive towards the shield gate.

[@BenJewer]

Thanks very much! The model is up on my Patreon page, if you pledge $10 or more you’ll get access to it, along with the battle droids from previous video. I’m definitely planning a bigger space battle video with these guys a la Rogue One, just wanted to do a quick test for now!

[@armandooliveira3712]

amazing..but also post step by step tutorials..

[@BenJewer]

Planning one, just waiting for my capture card to arrive so I can record my screen properly!

[@oozly9291]

Ben Jewer woohoo

[@hi-bf8yl]

how it looks in cycles ? O0O

[@jeevapjs]

Bro when I render in open gl with gpu, blender instantly closed. How to fix this problem. ( gpu is amd rx 560)

[@BenJewer]

No idea I'm afraid, you're probably best asking for tech support on the Blender Artists forum.

[@zevac]

That's pretty cool, you should check out this animation I just uploaded

[@angelosanti9761]

Um how was that evee